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SEAL FOR NEWSPAPERS. No. 285,370. Patented Sept. 18, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. WOODARD, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, 'ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOSEPH W. SHERWOOD, OF SAME PLACE.

SEAL FOR NEWSPAPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,370, dated September 18, 1883. Application filed June 11, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, JAMES H. WOODARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State to news agents, and having a narrow strip of paper, b, folded and pasted over the free or outside edges thereof, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, which is an end View of the same.

The strip Z2 maybe plain, or it may have printed upon it the name of the newspaper or some other distinctive mark.

It is customary for publishers of papers to allow their agents to return and receive credit for unsold papers, and it has been found in practice that many papers that have been sold, but afterward abandoned by the purchasers in ,railway-cars, hotels, and other public places,

other folded periodical publication, of a seal consisting of a separate and independent strip of paper having a distinctive mark thereon,

and folded over and secured upon the free edges of said publication, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

' JAMES H. VVOODARD.

WVitnesses:

DANIEL MAOAULEY, H. P. H001). 

